3 responses to “Windows Genuine Advantage becomes Windows Activation Advantage”

1. 

   Yuhong Bao May 9th, 2009 at 00:11

   “Windows Genuine Advantage becomes Windows Activation Advantage”
   The actual name is Windows Activation Technologies.

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   rc primak May 9th, 2009 at 02:57

   tomato, tomahto, it’s still Windows Genuine Spyware to me!

3. 

   sethness May 9th, 2009 at 19:13

   The full name is “Windows Activation Technologies”. ( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/07/microsoft_wga_rebranding/ )

   10 Bonus points to the first among us to create a good alternate acronym for “W.A.T.”

   50 Bonus points and an extra game-life for anyone amongst us who creampies the MS clown who still believes that renaming something will make the public forget its miserable history.

   Nota Bene to Ballmer: Wake up and smell the marketing weenies: “A mooseturd pie/meadow mellon/cowflop/bovine marshmallow by any other name would smell as foul.”